Project Eight
Sometimes I wonder how as a women entrepreneur I’d be affected with all the inequality issues toward women now days. I researched what the benefits of being a women entrepreneur would be and took great concern when realizing the large wage gap between working males and female. The wage gap has narrowed by only a half a penny a year for the past 40 years. The gap between median earnings of full-time, year-round workers widened last year, with women’s earnings currently 76% of men’s, down from 77% in 2004. At this rate, it will take another 40 years for women to reach wage parity with men, and over the course of a working lifetime, the average women loses approximately $523,000 due to the wage gap. (Working Women, 2005) Here are some other interesting facts.
Shannon Gilliland
My future career is nursing. I have known my entire life that I wanted to do something in the medical field. I believe nursing is the right job for me becuase I love to help people and be around poeple. With nursing there are so many opportunites, anywhere I go I will be able to find a job. I will also have a lot of job variations to choose from. I could work in a doctors office, a hospital, a jail a school, the list just keeps going on.
I will be doing my project on my fiancé’s career field, nursing, since I am male and going into the military which is based on a pay grade system. The top ten things to know about the field of nursing are:
1. There are over 200 different specialties that you can enter under the field of nursing. They are vastly different so make sure you do your own research to see what you are interested in or you might end up caring for the elderly when you wanted to be working in the emergency room (wikipedia.com)
Top 10 Things for Teachers to Know:
1. There are more women teachers in the grade levels than in the college/university level.
2. More women are hired to be kindergarten teachers than men.
3. Female teachers still get paid less than male teachers.
4. Male teachers are not considered to teach younger children.
5. Female teachers are seen as more caring and “motherly.”
6. There are more white female teachers than any other race.
7. Female teachers are considered for employment based on their personality more than their skills.
8. Male teachers are hired based on their background.
9. Female teachers are not as respected as their male counterparts.
10. Male teachers are considered for higher positions (principal) than female teachers.
Majoring in IST at Penn State, I plan to go into the world of information technology consulting. Not only is this field still relatively new, it is new to women which made it very difficult to get statistics on women in the field. Because of this, I focused on women in technology related fields and my main prospective company - Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
1. Women represent 46% of the total US labor force with a labor force participation rate of 59.3%.
2. Among the top ten occupations with the highest median weekly earnings among women working full-time are: chief executives, computer software engineers, computer and information systems managers, and computer programmers.
3. Most employed women work in management, professional, and related occupations (38%).
http://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/
4. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics study, there is a wage gap although this is less in the professional/business services industry which is part of a group that accounts for more than 60% of the highest earning women.
5. There is a wage gap for technology related fields. Male computer programmers make $146 more a week and Computer systems male analysts make $210 more a week.
6. Although women are not growing within high tech companies, women still feel they are being treated the same and do not notice the biases towards them.
http://www.allbusiness.com/p
7. PwC is on the top ten list of best places to work by Working Mother Magazine (along with HP and IBM)
8. Fortune named PwC in the top 100 companies to work for.
9. Black Collegian ranked PwC as number two in top employers of the class of 2004
10. DiversityInc named PwC the third best company in the nation for executive women in 2004.
